This was, of course, bull shit, he never said any such thing. And of course, he’s attending two funerals today. But MSNBC doesn’t care about the truth.
Via Free Beacon:
MSNBC host Katy Tur said Wednesday that Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R.) was “refusing to speak” with students crowded outside his office calling for gun control, before reporting minutes later that Scott’s absence was due to his attending a Parkland shooting victim’s funeral.
In the aftermath of last week’s high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead, students at the school and around Florida traveled to Tallahassee for a rally to call for action on gun reforms. MSNBC filmed a large group of students outside Scott’s office, chanting “Shame on you” and holding file boxes saying #HearTheBills and #Enough.
Tur reported a “blonde woman wearing glasses” had told the students Scott was “too busy to meet with them today.”
“They flooded the governor’s office, and the governor is refusing to speak with these students,” Tur said. “These are students from across Florida. They’re students from Parkland … The survivors. It sounds like they’re not being heard.”
Ali Velshi lied as well. This tweet got over 30,000 RTs. AFter Velshi was yelled at, he later tweeted he was at a funeral for a victim. 18 RTs.
And there’s no way Scott’s office would have said they were ‘too busy,’ that’s Velshi’s biased language.